jam是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 a sweet, soft food made by cooking fruit with sugar to preserve it. It is eaten on bread. -- 果醬

  • strawberry/raspberry jam 草莓／覆盆子醬

  • jam sandwiches 果醬三明治

• 1 →  traffic jam -- 交通堵塞（同 traffic jam）

  • We were stuck in a jam for two hours. 我們塞車塞了兩個小時。

• 2 something that is stuck in a machine, or that prevents the parts of a machine from moving -- 堵在機器中的東西；讓機器部件無法運動的東西

  • She fed the documents into the machine making sure that there were no paper jams. 她把檔送進機器，確保沒有紙張把機器卡住。

• 3 a difficult situation -- 困境，窘境

  • I'm in a jam - could you lend me some money till next week? 我手頭有點緊——你能借我一點錢到下周再還嗎？

  • How are we going to get ourselves out of this jam? 我們如何才能擺脫這個困境？

• 4 a situation in which a lot of people are in a small space -- 擁擠；堵塞

  • It's a real jam inside - it took me ten minutes to get to the bar. 裡面太擁擠了——我花了十分鐘才擠到吧台。

• 5 to be, or make something, unable to move -- （使）軋住；（使）卡住

  • The door jammed behind me and I couldn't get out. 我進來後門就隨即卡住了，我出不去了。

  • [ + obj + adj ] He jammed the window open with a piece of wood. 他將窗戶打開，用一塊木頭卡住。

  • Foreign radio broadcasts were regularly jammed. 外國的無線電廣播經常受到干擾。

• 6 to play jazz or rock music with other people informally without planning it or practising together -- （與他人）即興演奏爵士樂（或搖滾樂）

• 7 to push something forcefully or with difficulty into something else -- 把…塞入

  • He jammed the boxes into the back of the car. 他把箱子塞進汽車後面。

• 8 to fill a place completely -- 把…完全填滿

  • The centre of town was jammed with cars moving at a very slow pace. 鎮中心堵滿了車，移動緩慢。

  • The motorway was jammed solid (= the traffic could not move) all morning. 整個上午高速公路都被堵得嚴嚴實實。